What's wrong with the poor?: psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty
by Raz, Mical
In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In this interdisciplinary history, a physician and historian examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. The author shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an underst…
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- Full title :What's wrong with the poor? : psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty / Mical Raz.
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In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In this interdisciplinary history, a physician and historian examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. The author shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the poor had less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America's poor, were seen as having practically nothing. The author analyzes the political and cultural context that led child mental health experts, educators, and policymakers to embrace this deprivation-based theory and its translation into liberal social policy. Deprivation theory, she shows, continues to haunt social policy today, profoundly shaping how both health professionals and educators view children from low-income and culturally and linguistically diverse homes. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:©2013
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- Publisher(s):University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication:Chapel Hill
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (255 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781469612669, 1469612666, 9781469608884, 146960888X
- oclc:ocn858282036
- LC Classification:HV95
- Dewey Decimal:362.50973
Table of Contents
A mother's touch? : from deprivation to day care -- Cultural deprivation? : race, deprivation, and the nature-nurture debate -- Targeting deprivation : early enrichment and community action -- Deprivation and intellectual disability : from "mild mental retardation" to resegregation -- Environmental psychology and the race riots.
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